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Capturing Enigma

How HMS Petard Seized the German Naval Codes

By Harper, Stephen
2000, Sutton Publishing, Limited
ISBN 0750923164
Hardcover, 128 pages

Descripton: From the publisher: "An attack by a British destroyer on a German U-boat in the Eastern Mediterranean in October 1942 altered the course of the entire war. The capture of secret German Enigma coding material from U-559, at the cost of the lives of two of HMS Petard's crew, enabled Bletchley Park's codebreakers to successfully crack the U-boat cypher."

First published in the UK in 1999.

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Allied Warships. HMS Petard

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